Book Review. Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants, by Dennis Okholm. New Blackfriars
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1 From the SelectedWorks of Barnaby Hughes 2008 Book Review. Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants, by Dennis Okholm. New Blackfriars Barnaby Hughes Available at:
2 Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Grand Rapids, 2007). This attractively produced, slim volume comes well-recommended by Kathleen Norris, author of the bestselling The Cloister Walk, who has written the Foreword. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Benedictine spirituality. * While many such books have similarly catchy titles, this one distinguishes itself by its subtitle. It is very much written with the Protestant reader in mind, who will almost certainly have inherited some Protestant prejudices regarding monastic life and, by extension, monastic spirituality. But this book is also very much an American book, reflecting an evangelical Protestant milieu that will not be familiar to the average British reader. An annoying feature of the book in this regard is its use of the inclusive term 'monastics' in place of 'monks and nuns'. Monk Habits for Ordinary People can be read on a number of levels. At its most basic level it is an introduction to Benedictine spirituality that can be read with profit by both Protestants and Catholics. It can also be read as a contribution to the re-appropriation of the catholic tradition by Protestants, what some are calling the 'Evangelical ressourcement'. But perhaps without realising it, Okholm has a written a Catholic and monastic critique of evangelical Protestantism. While the author does not question Protestant doctrine he quotes with approval the opinions of Luther, Calvin, and Knox throughout the book he does continually criticise Protestant practises and the Evangelical mentality more generally. He offers Benedictine spirituality as a corrective to much of the consumerism and superficiality that mark evangelical Christianity in America. I think he must have a place like Willow Creek Community Church (near Chicago) in mind, which looks far more like a shopping mall than a church. As Okholm honestly admits, 'We have become consumers of religion rather than cultivators of a spiritual life; we have spawned an entire industry of Christian kitsch and bookstores full of spiritual junk food that leaves us sated and flabby' (p. 35). Sadly, this is becoming increasingly true of our Benedictine monasteries as well. * It may be useful for the reader to know that the present reviewer is a former Protestant, whose pedigree, like that of the author, 'includes Baptist and conservative evangelical strains' (p. 20). Moreover, the reviewer grew up in southern California, where the author now resides.
3 Dennis Okholm, the author, is both a theologian and pastor. In addition to completing three Master of Arts degrees, Okholm established his Reformed credentials with a doctoral dissertation on Petitionary Prayer and Providence in Two Contemporary Theological Perspectives: Karl Barth and Norman Pittenger at Princeton Theological Seminary in A further glimpse of Okholm's wide-ranging theological interests can be gained from his impressive publishing record. He is coauthor of A Family of Faith: An Introduction to Evangelical Christianity (2 nd ed., 2001) and Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options (10 th ed, 2005), editor of The Gospel in Black and White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation (1998), co-editor of Christian Apologetics in a Postmodern World (1995), The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals and Postliberals in Conversation (1996), Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (new ed., 1996), and Evangelicals and Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics (2004). But it should be mentioned that the present book is not Okholm's only contribution to Benedictine spirituality; he has also written an article entitled 'Gluttony: Thought for Food' for the American Benedictine Review 49:1 (1998), Okholm's academic and pastoral career has taken him all the way across America: from the East Coast, through the Midwest, to the West. He has taught at Jamestown College in North Dakota, Wheaton College in Illinois, and currently teaches at Azusa Pacific University in California. He is also an ordained minister in the mainline Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), not to be confused with its more conservative offspring the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). Okholm is currently part-time co-pastor of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. Much of this biographical information is scattered throughout Monk Habits for Everyday People. In particular, Okholm's relates the story of his acquaintance with Benedictine monasticism in the first chapter, colourfully entitled 'What's a Good (Protestant Evangelical) Boy Doin' in a Monastery?' While it is evident that Okholm has visited numerous American monasteries, his primary reference is to Blue Cloud Abbey in North Dakota, where he became an oblate in Okholm's monastic credentials also include four years ( ) as a board member of the
4 American Benedictine Academy. He is proud to have been the first non-monastic and non-catholic on the board. Monk Habits for Ordinary People has had a long gestation period. Some, if not most, of the book derives from Okholm's lectures on Benedictine monasticism give to his Protestant students during the last two decades. The material, therefore, has been well-tested against its target audience. It is evident, also, that Okholm has a thorough knowledge of his subject. Yet, while the book makes constant reference to his academic environment, it is not an academic book. Many technical monastic terms are explained for the reader; and in keeping with the book's target audience, there are numerous parenthetical asides to the Protestant reader. Some of these asides are merely explanatory; for example, one learns on page 29 that the Catholic term 'apostolic life' is equivalent to what Protestants call pastoral or missionary work. Some are descriptive or illustrative, so that of a certain Benedictine Abbey considered to be quiet Okholm writes, 'And this wasn't even a Trappist monastery, such as the Cistercian abbey in Gethsemane, Kentucky, of which Thomas Merton was a member. That is quiet!' (p. 39). Or they can be polemical; for Okholm writes of a certain notion, 'This is a point that Calvinistic-leaning Protestants have pushed, though sometimes extending it a bit too far, out Calvining Calvin' (p. 75). Each of these asides reinforces the conversational style of the book, whilst making it more accessible to Protestants. After the introductory chapter telling how the author became acquainted with monasticism, there follows a chapter that begins with a brief historical introduction to Benedictine monasticism and an argument why Protestants can benefit from Benedictine spirituality. One of the many interesting comparisons that Okholm draws throughout the book is between the way that Benedictines interpret the Rule of St Benedict vis-à-vis the Gospel and the way that Presbyterian clergy interpret the Westminster Confession vis-à-vis the Bible. He correctly describes the Rule as functioning as 'a kind of flexible hermeneutical device to translate the gospel into daily communal Christian living' (p. 26). Okholm gives six reasons why Protestants can benefit from Benedictine spirituality. 1) Benedictine spirituality provides a contemplative balance to a typically activist
5 Evangelical piety. 2) A healthy ecclesiology demands that Protestants learn from other Christian traditions. 3) While Protestants are proficient at formulating doctrine, Okholm urges that they are less proficient at performing doctrine; they could benefit from the lived theology of Benedictine monks and nuns. 4) Protestants and 'monastics' share a profoundly biblical spirituality. 5) Protestants have many misconceptions about what monasticism is. 6) Monastic askesis is an effective counter-balance to the 'consumer-driven, efficiency minded, results-oriented culture' of Evangelical Christianity (p. 33). I would also add that Protestants can benefit, as I have, from the variety of forms of the religious life within the Catholic Church, of which monastic life is perhaps the most important. There really is no equivalent to the religious life among Protestants. Though the two introductory chapters are amongst the most interesting chapters of the book, which are a sort of apologia for the book and the author, the core of the book is composed of seven topical chapters describing the fundamental characteristics of Benedictine life. Taking his cue from the opening words of the Rule of St Benedict, Okholm begins with the need and importance of silence as an aid to listening to God and other people. Further chapters cover poverty, obedience, humility, hospitality, stability, and balance, i.e. the balance between prayer, work, and reading (lectio divina) described in chapter 48 of the Rule. Finally, the book includes an Historical Afterword addressing why the Protestant Reformers attacked monasticism, suggestions for further reading, and suggestions for practising Benedictine spirituality. Much of what Dennis Okholm relates about his own experience of monastic life is certainly consonant with my own, such as the abbot being the first to begin clearing up after meals (p. 63). There are numerous interesting and relevant personal anecdotes in the book. I offer the following as an example: 'Several years ago I delivered the annual dean's convocation at an Anabaptist college in the Midwest at the request of my friend the dean. We dressed in full academic regalia so that when the fuzzy black-and-white photograph of me appeared in the local town newspaper I indeed looked like a monk dressed in his habit; and the photo fit the headline: Monk Addresses College. I was a true monk for one day and didn't even realize it' (p. 36). Other anecdotes illustrate the
6 author's quirky sense of humour, such as when he relates that his spell checker wants to rewrite retreatants as retreat ants, which he takes as a hint 'that they may have been more attracted to the donuts than to the speaker' (p. 12). In a particularly awful pun he writes, 'Benedict is clear that abbots rule. (This might inspire a marketable T-shirt among monastics!)' (p. 63). Despite having stated above that the author knows the monastic tradition well, he is not immune from error. Trappists do not pray eight times a day (p. 102). Since the office of Prime was recently suppressed by the Second Vatican Council, only seven of the original eight Benedictine offices remain. Pope St Gregory the Great was not a Benedictine (p. 47), though he was certainly a monk. Other errors seem to derive from difficulty with ancient languages. Anchoresis (p. 24) should read anachoresis. Ad usus (p. 47) should be ad usum. The word 'gyrovague' does not derive from the Latin for 'circle' and the Greek for 'wander' (pp ), but rather the converse. A more obvious and persistent error is the word conversatio moralis (pp. 55, 77, 89, 92-93), which should be conversatio morum. The author seems somewhat confused as to what this means; it is not a 'daily turning to God' (p. 77) or 'conversion of life' (p. 92), but it is 'the monastic way of life' (p. 93). A further slip is that South Dakota (p. 127) should read North Dakota. Monk Habits for Ordinary People is an enjoyable and readable book, written by a sympathetic and knowledgeable observer of Benedictine life. The Protestant reader will learn much from this book, both about Benedictine spirituality and about his/her own Protestant history and theology. Moreover, the Protestant reader will certainly be challenged to examine his/her own life and encouraged to live in closer conformity to the Gospel. I would certainly recommend this book
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